Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Swimmer with Buoys at Dock

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOcean City, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Ocean City New Jersey

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Swimmer with Buoys at Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a person swimming in a body of water, likely a lake or bay, under a deep blue tint. The swimmer moves through the water, creating ripples and splashes, with a line of white buoys visible in the foreground. A wooden dock appears on the right side of the frame in later shots. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic moment of recreation. The dark borders suggest the clip was shot on 8mm film, offering authentic archival material for historical, editorial, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121308628

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1329 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1968-1970
Reel-level location note: pennsylvania, new jersey
Date: 1968 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Ocean City, New Jersey, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s recreation or coastal-town archive requests needing brief home-movie footage of swimming near buoys in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie format, saturated blue cast, soft focus, and simple swim-area buoys are consistent with late-1960s amateur vacation footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged swimmer moving through open water from a distant, casual home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer, rippled blue water, a line of white buoys, dark frame borders, and a wooden dock edge in later frames.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, deep blue color shift, soft exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short recreation insert, waterfront cutaway, summer-memory beat, or transition within a 1960s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual waterside recreation in a marked swim area, with the swimmer shown at a distance and no identifiable shoreline landmark visible.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any location or property considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1968 Ocean City New Jersey swimming, vintage 8mm swimmer with buoys, and 1960s home movie water recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Ocean City footage, then other 1968 New Jersey waterfront scenes, then broader 1960s swimming or summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a distant swimmer beyond a white buoy line in blue-tinted water. — A swimmer moves through rippled water behind a line of white buoys.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame from Ocean City showing a distant swimmer and white buoys across rippled water. — The swimmer appears farther back in the water as the buoy line crosses the foreground.

1968 Ocean City 8mm frame with a swimmer, foreground buoys, dark borders, and a dock edge entering from the right. — A dock edge appears at right while the swimmer continues across the water.

Ocean City 1968 home-movie frame showing a swimmer splashing near a dock, with white buoys across the lower water. — The swimmer splashes near the dock as the buoy line remains visible below.

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